MCO 329 Audio Storytelling

3 Credit(s) W-II

This production-based course teaches students to compose narrative audio stories like those heard on the radio and popular podcasts. Through attention to genre, purpose, and audience and practice with listening and audio analysis, students will learn strategies and techniques to craft their own audio stories. Students will gain experience in writing a pitch, writing a script, interviewing, recording sound, collecting and downloading sound, experimenting with sound effects, silence, and music, and working in audio editing software. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who completed ENL329 or ENL234. Prerequisite: W-I.